Gene Gross

Gene Michael Grossman (born December 11, 1955, in New York) is an American economist who is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He is known for his research on international trade, in large part focusing on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the environmental Kuznet...

Gene Michael Grossman (born December 11, 1955, in New York) is an American economist who is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He is known for his research on international trade, in large part focusing on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the environmental Kuznets curve. He received his B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He became assistant professor at Princeton University in 1980 and full professor of economics in 1988. He frequently collaborated with Harvard professor Elhanan Helpman, producing three books together: Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy, Special Interest Politics, and Interest Groups and Trade Policy. In 2009, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen. Grossman received the 2015 Onassis Prize for International Trade. In 2016, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Minho. Grossman is married to Jean Baldwin Grossman, a faculty member in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He has two children. Grossman was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. Publications Grossman, Gene; Krueger, Allan B. (1991). "Environmental impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement". National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 3914, NBER. Cambridge MA. doi:10.3386/w3914. Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan (1993). Innovation and growth in the global economy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262570978. Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan (2002). Special interest politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262571678. Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan (March 3, 2002). Interest Groups and Trade Policy. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691095974. References External links Gene Grossman's personal homepage at Princeton University Gene Grossman at IDEAS/RePEc